Filner's legal strategy emerges, enrages many

The citywide conversation about the latest wrinkle in the sexual harassment scandal of San Diego Bob Filner was so explosive we decided to curate much of it here.

We compiled comments from a number of local news and socia-media sites — nine sites and 50 comments in all — so whether readers primarily get their news from U-T San Diego or The Los Angeles Times, from Voice of San Diego, KPBS or one of the TV stations in town, everyone can get a sense how the city reacted.

The letter, first reported by Voice of San Diego Wednesday, was made public a day after the San Diego City Council voted unanimously not to pay Filner's legal bills and, separately and also unanimously, to sue him to indemnify the city against damages and fees it may face as a result of a sexual harassment lawsuit brought against the mayor and the city by his former communications director.

Rob Bowman: Still blaming the victim? You either have no class and empathy or you're a lawyer. But I repeat myself.

Claudia Haines: And who may I ask is over the mayor to make sure he followed through on that? Not city council, not the city attorney, not the citizens of san diego, I will bet the buck stopped at the office of the mayor.

Ken Platt: So did McCormack receive this training? If she had, then the training would have instructed her to report harassment when it first happened 6 months ago. If she has not recieved the training, then she doesn't have a leg to stand on in her suit either.